{"id":1186,"date":"2010-04-02T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2010-04-03T23:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T03:53:46","slug":"season-of-light-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"Season of Life 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverytheater.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian<\/a> offers a performance in celebration of spring festivals in various cultures. My daughter and I attended as part of a homeschoolers\u2019 outing, and I took along my sketchbook. The homages to the season were skillfully woven together with music, dancing, brief dramatic episodes, and rapid costume and prop changes by the very small yet impressive multi-talented cast. It was lively and engaging, but really tough to sketch and make notes! More like a series of scrawls. Since these fill a spread of my sketchbook, it\u2019s too big for one post, so just the left side today: Passover, the Maypole, and Hana Matsuri.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'ITC Galliard', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SeasonOfLifeL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1187\" title=\"SeasonOfLifeL\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SeasonOfLifeL.jpg\" alt=\"SeasonOfLifeL\" width=\"441\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SeasonOfLifeL.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SeasonOfLifeL-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian offers a performance in celebration of spring festivals in various cultures. My daughter and I attended as part of a homeschoolers\u2019 outing, and I took along my sketchbook. The homages to the season were skillfully woven together with music, dancing, brief dramatic episodes, and rapid costume and prop<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1186\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14],"tags":[47,23,174,4,17,72,3],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-festival","tag-homeschooling","tag-mythology","tag-penink","tag-spring","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}